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Tim
Jul 24, 2018
Malcolm has a great way of looking at the world and some of the underlying events that unfold around us. give it a go. you'll get hooked

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Jul 19, 2018

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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time. From Panoply Media. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

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Date

Analysis, Parapraxis, Elvis

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The one song The King couldn’t sing.&nbsp;<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 19, 2018

Strong Verbs, Short Sentences

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“She was Joan of Arc, Madame Curie, and Florence Nightingale—all wrapped up in one.”<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 12, 2018

The Imaginary Crimes of Margit Hamosh

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Epidemics of fear repeat themselves. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. Margit Hamosh? Definitely farce.&nbsp;<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 05, 2018

Malcolm Gladwell's 12 Rules for Life

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Crucial life lessons from the end of hockey games, Idris Elba, and some Wall Street guys with a lot of time on their hands.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 28, 2018

The Hug Heard Round the World

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Q: Was there a period where you felt you had something to prove? A: The first 45 years of my life.&nbsp;<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 21, 2018

General Chapman’s Last Stand

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Good fences make good neighbors. Or maybe not.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 14, 2018

Free Brian Williams

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"Sorry dude, I don't remember you being on my aircraft."<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 07, 2018

A Polite Word for Liar

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An early morning raid, a house-full of Nazis, the world’s greatest harmonica player, and a dashingly handsome undercover spy. What could possibly go wrong?<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

The complete, unabridged history of the world’s most controversial semicolon.&nbsp;<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

May 17, 2018

Bonus: Malcolm Gladwell debates Adam Grant

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In a special live taping at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Malcolm talks with WorkLife’s Adam Grant about how to avoid doing highly undesirable tasks, what makes an idea interesting, and why Malcolm thinks we shouldn't root for the underdog.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

May 10, 2018

Introducing Revisionist History Season Three

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Malcolm Gladwell is back with season three of Revisionist History: harmonica players, mass delusion, semicolons, and a constitutional crisis. Launching May 17th on Panoply.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

May 03, 2018

The Basement Tapes

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What is a son’s obligation to his father?<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Aug 17, 2017

McDonald’s Broke My Heart

2227https://leopard.megaphone.fm/PPY8679820909.mp3?updated=1503602578

They made the world’s greatest French Fry. Then they threw it away.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

“Nobody was interested in justice.”<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 27, 2017

The King of Tears

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Why country music makes you cry, and rock and roll doesn’t: A musical interpretation of divided America.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 20, 2017

The Prime Minister and the Prof

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The friendship that changed the course of World War II.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 13, 2017

The Foot Soldier of Birmingham

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“Oh, Mac. What did you do?”<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

What happens when a terrorist has a change of heart?<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 22, 2017

A Good Walk Spoiled

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Rich people and their addiction to golf: a philosophical investigation.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 15, 2017

Introducing Revisionist History Season Two

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From bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, season two of Revisionist History launches June 15th.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

May 26, 2017

The Satire Paradox

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In the political turmoil of mid-1990s Britain, a brilliant<br>young comic named Harry Enfield set out to satirize the ideology and politics<br>of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. His parodies became famous. He wrote and<br>performed a vicious sendup of the typical Thatcherite nouveau riche buffoon. People<br>loved it. And what happened? Exactly the opposite of what Enfield hoped would<br>happen. In an age dominated by political comedy, “The Satire Paradox”asks whether laughter and social<br>protest are friends or foes.&nbsp; <br><br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Aug 18, 2016

Generous Orthodoxy

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A 98-year-old minister takes on his church over the subject of gay marriage—and teaches the rest of us what it means to stand up in protest. <br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Aug 11, 2016

Blame Game

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In the summer and fall of 2009, hundreds of Toyota owners came forward with an alarming allegation: Their cars were suddenly and uncontrollably accelerating. Toyota was forced to recall 10 million vehicles, pay a fine of more than $1 billion, and settle countless lawsuits. The consensus was that there was something badly wrong with the world’s most popular cars. Except that there wasn’t. What happens when hysteria overtakes common sense? <br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Aug 04, 2016

Hallelujah

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How does genius emerge? An exploration of different types of innovation—through the lens of Elvis Costello’s extraordinary song “Deportee,” once utterly forgettable and then, through time and iteration, a work of beauty and genius. <br><br><strong>If you're looking to go deeper into the subjects on Revisionist History, visit Malcolm's collection on iBooks at </strong><a href="http://www.apple.co/MalcolmGladwell"><strong>http://www.apple.co/MalcolmGladwell</strong></a><strong> -- iBooks will update the page every week with new recommendations. </strong><br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 28, 2016

My Little Hundred Million

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In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma mater, MIT. What was Rowan thinking? And why has it proven so difficult for other philanthropists to follow his lead? <br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 21, 2016

Food Fight

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Bowdoin College and Vassar College are two elite private schools that compete for the same students. But one of those schools is trying hard to address the problem of rich and poor in American society—and paying a high price. The other is making that problem worse—and reaping rewards as a result. <br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 14, 2016

Carlos Doesn’t Remember

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Of the tens of thousands of talented, low-income students who graduate from high school every year in the United States, most never make it to universities appropriate to their gifts. America leaves an enormous amount of talent on the table every year. “Carlos Doesn’t Remember” explains why. <br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jul 07, 2016

The Big Man Can't Shoot

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Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a shooting technique that made him one of the worst foul shooters in basketball—even though he had tried a better alternative. Why do smart people do dumb things? <br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 30, 2016

Saigon, 1965

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In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure the effect of relentless U.S. bombing on their morale. Yet despite a wealth of great data, even the leaders of the study couldn’t agree on what it meant. <br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 23, 2016

The Lady Vanishes

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In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took England by storm. But after that brilliant first effort, the artist all but disappeared. Why? And what does The Roll Call tell us about the fate of those first through the door? <br><br>To learn more about the topics covered in this episode, visit <a href="http://www.RevisionistHistory.com">www.RevisionistHistory.com</a><br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jun 16, 2016

Introducing Revisionist History

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Coming soon, a new podcast series from bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell.<br><br>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>